Printing, cutting, collecting, and folding machine.



H. M. BARBER.

PRINTING, CUTTI NG, COLLECTiNG, AND FOLDING MACHINE.

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APPLICATlON FILED AUG-2 7, I913- Patented May 9, 1916.

4 SHEETS-$HEET H. M. BARBER PRINTING, CUTTING, COLLECTING; AND FOLDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUCLZH 1913.

Patented May 9, 1916.

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Patented May 9, 1916.

4 SHEETSSHEET 4-- M an "s'rATEs PATENT OFFICE HOWARD M. BARBER, OF STON INGTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO C. B. COTTRELL & SONS COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PRINTING, CUTTING, COLLECTING, AND FOLDING MACHINE.

Patented May a, 1916.

Application filed August 27, 1913. Serial No. 786,922.

'Stonington, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Printing, Cutting, Collecting, and Folding Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is broadly to provide novel means for obtaining aproduct of any desired even number of pages without the necessity of introducing supplement sheets into the product. 4

This invention is directed more particularly to novel means for printing, cutting, collecting andfolding sheets whereby the product from the press may be cut into an odd number of sections for each revolution of the press and collected upon a cylinder having an even number of collecting 'surfaces, each collecting surface being arranged to collect thereon a full product of the press, each of said full products being composed of sections printed during a plurality of revolutions of the press.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings. ir1."wliicl1 Figure 1 represents in side elevation so much of a combined printing, cutting, collecting and folding machine as will give a clear understanding of my-invention. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view taken from front to rear through the machine showingthe printing couples, the cutters. the collecting cylinfolding cylinder and the delivery der, the

Fig. 3 IS a diagrammatic view of cylinder; the parts shown in Fig. 2 taken adjacent to one of the side frames, and Fig. 4 is a similar view taken adjacent to the other side frame illustrating the geared connection between the several parts. i

The invention is illustrated in connection with aweb perfecting press, the plate and impression of the first printing couplebeing denoted by 1 and 2 and the plate and impression cylinders of the second printing couple being denoted by 3 and 4. The web is and it passes from the second denoted by 5 printing couple around guide rollers 6 and 7 through a pair of rotary cutters 8, 9, which cutters are herein shown as arranged to cut the product ofa full revolution of thepress transversely into three sections.

printing The web 5 passes through guides 10, 11, to a combined collecting and folding cylin' (lei-1.2, which cylinder is herein shown as having two collecting surfaces thereon. The twosets of grippers on the cylinder 12 are denoted bv 13 and 1 t. Intermediate these two sets of grippers I provide two tucking blades 15, 16, which are arranged tocoact at proper intervals with a single set of folding jaws 17 carried by the folding cyl inder 18. The delivery cylinder 19 is provided with a set of grippers 20.

Means, to behereinafter more fully de scribed, are provided for floating the folding aws 17 ininarallelism with the tucking blades 15 and 16 when the sheets are told ed ofi from the cylinder 12 to the cylinder 18 and tangentially to the surface ofthe cylinder- 18 when the folded sheets are transferred to the set of rippers 20 of the delivery cylinder 19. T19 folded product, while on the cylinder 19, is slitlongitudinally into two or more sections by one or more slitters 21. The sheets are' delivered from the cylinder 19 to anypredetermined point, as, for instance, into the pockets 22 of a delivery carrier of well known or approved form. Mechanism to be hereinafter described is arranged to drive the delivery cylinder-19 at i .sheets are delivered to the pockets 22 of the delivery carrier.

Tricking reels 23 are arranged to guide the leading edge of the web successively into the grippers13 and 14 of the cylinder 12. In the embodiment of my invention herein shown. the diameter of the rotary cutters is one-third that of the cylinders of the couples, the diameter of the collecting cylinder 12 is two-thirds that of the cylinders of the printing couples and the diameter of the folding cylinder 18 isthe same as the cylinders of the printing couples. The cutters arearranged to cut the product of one revolution of the press transversely. into three sections. the cylinder 12 is arranged to collect a full product of three 'sections on each of its collectingsurfaces every two revolutions of the press and a full product is folded off onto the cylinder 18 alternately from each of thecollecting surthe cylinder 18 when the jaws are coacting faces on the cylinder 12 every three revolutions of the said cylifnder 12.

The shafts 24, 25, 26, 27, of the printing couples are provided with interconnected gears 28, '29, 30, 31. The shaft 32 of the cylinder 18 is provided with a gear 33 which is driven from the gear 30 through the intermediate gears 34, 35, 36.", The shaft 37 of the cylinder 12 is provided with a gear 38 which meshes with the gear 33. The shaft 39 of the tucking reels 10 is provided with a gear 40 which meshes with the gear 38 and also with the gear 41, meshes with a gear 42 fixed to the shaft 43 of one of the rotary cutters. The shaft 44 of theother rotary cutter is provided with gears 45, 46', which mesh with gears 47,48, onthe shaft 43 of the other rotary cutter.

The shaft 49 of the cylinder 19 is provided with an elliptic gear 50 which meshes with an elliptic gear 51 on the shaft 32 of the cylinder 18. g

Q A stationary cam 52 is arranged to successivelyengage the rocking arms 53, 54, of the sets of grippers 13 and 14 for opening the grippers to successively receive the ,leadi'ng edge of the web. A movable cam '55 isfarranged to engage the rocking arm 53 of the grippers 13 every third revolution of the cylinder 12 and the rocking arms of the grippers 14 every third revolution of the cylinder 12 at the proper time-for successively'fold'ing oil the collected product of the press onto the cylinder 18. This movable cam 55 is operated by a cam 56 fixed. on the shaft 32 of the cylinder 18 through the rock lever 57 and connection 58. v

The folding jaws 17 are floated successively in parallelism with the tucking blades 15 and 16 on the cylinder 12 and tangentially with respect to the surface of with the" grippers 20 by means of a cam 59 which engages the rocking arm 60. A startionary cam 61 is arranged to open the folding jaws at the times-of their coaction with the tucking blades. 15. and 16 and a stationary cam 62 is arranged to open the folding jaws at the time of their coaction with the grippers 20 on the cylinder 19. A stationary cam 63 is arrangedin position to engage the rock arm 64 of the set of grippers 2O on the cylinder 19 for opening the grippers to deliver the product into one of the pockets '22 of the delivery carrier and for keeping the grippers open for receiving the product from the folding jaws 17 of the cylinder 18.

' In operation, as the perfected web leaves the printing mechanism, it passes through the rotary cutters 8, 9, and is there severed into three sections for each revolution of the press. The advance edge of the web is fed successively to the grippers 13 and 14 which gear 41 ferred from thecylinder 18 to the delivery cylinder 19, the cylinder 19 being driven at a varying speed so that the grippers 20 I on the cylinder 19 are driven at the sur-- facespeed of the cylinder 18 at the time the product is delivered from the cylinder 18 to the cylinder 19 and the grippers are moved at a much slower speed at the time the product is delivered into the pockets of the delivery carrier. These products are slit longitudinally into a plurality of sec- While I have shown and described this invention in COIlIlQCtlQILWlth a, form in 'which three sections are cut transversely "tions by the coaction of the slitter or slit- -t'ers 21 with the cylinder 1.9.

the web during one revolution thereof and,

theprovision of any even number of surfaces on the collecting cylinder.

In the form herein shown, the three sheet product with one fold, will make twelve pages.

By the term cylinder as used in the description I contemplate any suitable means for carrying the web sections through the prescribed pathsand by the term grippers I wish to include any sheet engaging devices suitable for the purpose of conveying the same through said prescribed paths.

What I claim is 1. In a, machine of the character described, a rotary press, means for cutting the product of each revolution of the pressinto an odd number of sections, a collecting surface and means for collecting a full product of the press on said surface during a plurality of revolutions of the press.

2. In a machine of the. character described, a rotary press, means for cutting the product of each revolution of the press into an odd number of sections, a collecting 's'iifface, means for collecting a full product of -the press on said surface during a plurality of revolutions of the press, and means for folding off said product.

3. In a machine of the character de scribed, a rotary )ress, means for cutting the product of each revolution of the pr ss into an odd number of sections, an r on number of collecting s ,ccs and "=1 :LIIS for collecting a full produrt. of the press on each of the surfaces during a plurality of revolutions of'the press,

l. in a machineof the character described, a rotary press, means for cutting the product of each revolution of the press into an odd number of sections, an even number of collecting surfaces, means for collecting a full product of the press on each of the surfaces during a plurality of revolutions of the press, and means for fold lug off said products.

:3. In a machine of the character described, a rotary press, means for cutting theproduct of each revolution 'of the press into three sections, two collecting surfaces and means for collecting a full product of the press on each of the two surfaces every two revolutions of the press.

(3. In a machine of the character described, a 'rotary press. means for cutting the product of each revolution of the press into three sections, two collecting surfaces, vmeans for collecting a full product of the pr ss on each of the two surfaces every two revolutions of the press, and means for folding off said products. I

7. In a machine of the character described, a rotary press, means for cutting the productof each revolution of-the press into an odd number of sections and a cylin- (lcr having an even nuinber of collecting surfaces and arranged to collect in a plurality of revolutions of the cylinder a full. product of the press on each of the surfaces during a plurality of revolutions of the press.

8. In a machine of the character described, a rotary press, means for cutting the product of each revolution of the press into an odd number of sections, a cylinder having an even number of collecting surfaces and arranged to collect in a plurality of revolutions of the cylinder a full prodnot of the press on each of the surfaces during a plurality of revolutions of the press, and means for folding off said. products.

9. 'In a machine of the character described, a rotary press, means for cutting the product of each revolution of the press into three sections and a cylinder having two collecting surfaces and arranged to collect a full product of the press on each of the surfaces every three revolutions of the cylinder and every two revolutions of the press.

surface a productcomposed of an odd num ber of sections.

12. In a machine of the character-described, an even number of collecting sur faces. means operable to collect on each surface a product composed of an odd number ofsections, and means for folding off each of said products.

13. In a machine of the character described, tWo collecting surfaces and means operable to collect on each surface a product composed of three sections.

l. In a machine of the character described, two collecting surfaces, means operable to collect on each surface a product composed of three sections, and means for folding off each of said products.

15. In ainachine of the character described; a cylinder having an even number of collecting surfaces and means operable to collect on each surface a product composed of an odd number of sections.

16. In a machine of the character described, a cylinder having an even number of collecting surfaces, means operable to collect on each surface a product composed of an odd number of sections, and means for folding off each of said products.

17. In ainachine ofthe character de scribed, a cylinder having tWo collecting surfaces and means operable to collect on each surface a product composed of three sections.

18. In a machine of the character described, a cylinder having tWo collecting surfaces, means operableto collect on each surface a product composed of three sections, and means for folding off each of said products.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my-name' in HOWARD M. BARBER.

Witnesses A. R. STILLMAN, E. M. GRANT. 

